BEZIQUE-6
SIX-PACK BEZIQUE
This version, sometimes, but rarely, known as Chinese bezique, is a game for two players, and generally considered the most popular variation of the family. Sir Winston Churchill was a keen player and an able exponent of the game.
Six packs are shuffled together and both players lift a part of the pack and show the bottom cards to determine choice of seat and deal. The one who shows the higher card has the choice, and would be advised to pass the deal to his opponent because there is a slight disadvantage in dealing. If equal cards are shown the players cut again.
The dealer takes a number of cards at random off the top of the pack, and the non-dealer estimates how many have been taken. If his estimate proves correct he scores 150 points. The dealer deals 12 cards, one by one, to his opponent and himself, and scores 250 points if he has taken exactly 24 cards from the top of the pack.
There is no turn-up to determine the trump suit. It is determined, as in rubicon bezique, by the first declared marriage or sequence by either player.
The declarations are scored for as follows:
| Sequence in trumps | 250 |
| Sequence in plain suit | 150 |
| Royal marriage | 40 |
| Common marriage | 20 |
| Bezique | 40 |
| Double bezique | 500 |
| Triple bezique | 1,500 |
| Quadruple bezique | 4,500 |
| Four aces in trumps | 1,000 |
| 4 10s in trumps‘ | 900 |
| 4 Kings in trumps | 800 |
| 4 Queens in trumps | 900 |
| Any 4 Aces | 100 |
| Any 4 Kings | 80 |
| Any 4 Queens | 60 |
| Any 4 Jacks | 40 |
| Carrte blanche | 250 |
The non-dealer leads to the first trick. It is not compulsory to follow suit, and the card that is led holds the trick unless a higher card of the same suit is played or a trump is played to the lead of a plain suit.
As points are not scored for brisques, nor for winning poker tricks, the tricks are not gathered and turned but left face upwards on the table in a pile. The winner of a trick may score for a declaration. He takes the top card of the stock (the loser takes the next card of the stock) and leads to the next trick.
A declarations is made by placing the appropriate cards face upwards on the table. They are left there and are available for play as though in the hand of the player. Declarations are scored when made, and the same card may be counted in a declaration more than once.
No declaration may be made after the last two cards of the stock have been drawn. The players then pick up any cards they have on the table and play off the last 12 tricks. As in the parent game, a player must now follow suit to the card led, and must win a trick if he is able to.
Every deal constitutes a online poker game, and the player with the higher score wins. He adds 1,000 points to his score, and rubicons his opponent if he has failed to score 3,000 points.